FISA bill overcomes key hurdle to tee up floor fight on warrant requirement
Source: The Hill
04/09/24 9:31 PM ET
A bill to reauthorize the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers passed a key hurdle in the House on Tuesday even as it still faces a rocky pathway to the Senate – including a floor fight over whether to add a warrant requirement to the bill.
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday gave its blessing to a bill that would reauthorize for five years Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which greenlights the government to spy on foreigners located abroad.
The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act includes a number of reforms to provide greater oversight of how agencies, particularly the FBI, use a tool that also sweeps up the communications of Americans who communicate with those being surveilled. But while billed as a compromise measure, it comes after months of feuding between the House’s Intelligence and Judiciary committees, pushing its consideration up against the April 19th deadline.
The latest bill also hews more closely to the prior Intel legislation, reigniting frustration from Judiciary members who want a warrant requirement for accessing Americans’ data – a detail set to be handled in a floor showdown on a controversial amendment to add one.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4584117-fisa-spy-powers-rules-warrant/
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